#middle america

[wormkats]

leavenworth kansas

#kansas #midwest #rural america #photography #rural gothic #midwest gothic #mine #december #winter #nature #middle america

[slippy-socks]

only children, jason isbell

#my art #daily sketch #jason isbell #reunions #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #southern gothic #ethel cain #americana #dark folk #america core #middle america #spooky

[neaature]

I did Midwest Gothic a few weekends ago and now I'm unleashing it into the wild. Enjoy.

#dark academia #midwest gothic #prairie gothic #southern gothic #dread #horror #small towns #middle america #novel #setting #midwest #horrorcore #great plains gothic

[wack-ashimself]

So...not a lot of ANYONE on ANY social media are talking about this, but a lot of shit is going down in #texas, with reports of a civil war!? WTF. I don't know enough about what's going on, but I know it deals with the border.

Dear Texas,

YOU STOLE YOUR LAND FROM THE NATIVES OF MEXICO, THEN SUPPORTED A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT DESTABILIZED NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY SOUTH OF YOU; WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN? WHERE DID YOU THINK THESE PEOPLE WOULD TURN TO IN THEIR TIME OF NEED?!

Texas and Florida...worst fucking states by a god damn lightyear. <and, again, I do not blame the PEOPLE of those states, rather, their government and those who support them.>

#texas #mexico #middle america #south maerica #usa #border #civil war #class war

[skrimshaw]

Being from mid america is like. Yes I love this land and its ecosystem and it is home but it’s never been homely & the people have never been quite right. It’s like trying to make home where everyone else will treat you alright mostly but they’ll never get close enough to matter. & You want to leave but you’re afraid no place will ever be like this in both the worst and best ways

#</3 #not including my friend but you know it’s bad when you speak to EVERYONE and they’re all like ‘yeah. you’d probably be better somewhere else #mid america #Midwest #negative #but not in a doomer way. I still like it here #middle America #midwestern united states #Midwestern gothic

[speaknahuatl]

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#speaknahuatl #webinars #workshops #in person classes #Mesoamerica #Middle America #Nahuatl #Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages #Mesoamerican Languages #Nauatl #Nawatl

[jeysphoto]

I-29 North, Jey Schroeder, 2022

#midwest #middle america #highway #travel #middle of nowhere #Nebraska #iowa #south dakota #photography #photographer #nebraska photographer #landscape photography #landscape #spn aesthetic

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Downtown Springfield Ohio.....signs of urban decay in the Midwest, biked up from Yellow Springs on the Little Miami trail. Not a very friendly town - Yellow Springs was much more welcoming.

#B&W Photography #Urban Decay #middle america #original photography #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #little miami trail #springfield ohio

[purposefullybadart]

"Putting too much faith in the make believe, another high school football team"

- American Teenager, Ethel Cain

#ethel cain #preachers daughter #american teenager #daughters of cain #preacher's daughter #my shitty photograph #still #mother cain #photography #photografy #middle america #hayden anhedönia

[whiterosebrian]

Woodlands and Wetlands

One of the chapters within that book on capital-r Romantic poetry is about the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.  I noted that most of the poems within that chapter are written in blank verse—that is, lacking rhymes or other common methods of aural patterning.  I decided to write similarly.  Indeed, that is the very reason why I felt a need to pay even closer attention to the rhythms among words and within lines, and I made multiple subtle edits during the typing process towards with that in mind. 

Long ago around the Great Lakes,

Woodlands and wetlands abounded with trees and waters.

Heedless industries flattened the landscape until

It really became a nearly perfect caricature

Of an empty, colorless, insular Middle America.

That surely cannot provide a proper home

For foxes, catfish, maples, geraniums, or humans.

Children see signs for generic businesses

When they look upwards from grounds paved with concrete.

Need I ramble on why it is no proper home?

The rebuilding really will be very long and difficult.

No thoughtful person should deny the challenges.

Wisdom, care, and effort must be given by all.

Need I ramble on why the effort will still be worthy?

It is time to reconcile society with woodlands and wetlands.

#poems and poetry #poetry #blank verse #nature #great lakes #middle america #woodlands #wetlands #original poetry #original poem

[boldlycrazynacho]

#snow #morning #middle america

[manwalksintobar]

The Flying Eagles of Troop 62  // James Wright

           Ralph Neal was the Scoutmaster. He was still a young man. He liked us.

           I have no doubt he knew perfectly well we were each of us masturbating unhappily in secret caves and shores.

           The soul of patience, he waited while we smirked behind each other's backs, mocking and parodying the Scout Law, trying to imitate the oratorical rotundities of Winston Churchill in a Southern Ohio accent:

           "Ay scout is trusswortha, loll, hailpful, frenly, curtchuss, kand, abaydent, chairful, thrifta, dapraved, clane, and letcherass."

           Ralph Neal knew all about the pain of the aching stones in our twelve-year-old groins, the lava swollen halfway between our peckers and our nuts that were still green and sour as half-ripe apples two full months before the football season began.

           Socrates loved his friend the traitor Alcibiades for his beauty and for what he might become.

           I think Ralph Neal loved us for our scrawniness, our acne, our fear; but mostly for his knowledge of what would probably become of us. He was not a fool. He knew he would never himself get out of that slime hole of a river valley, and maybe he didn't want to. The Vedantas illustrate the most sublime of ethical ideals by describing a saint who, having endured through a thousand lives every half-assed mistake and unendurable suffering possible from birth to death, refused at the last minute to enter Nirvana because he realized that his scruffy dog, suppurating at the nostrils and half mad with rabies, could not accompany him into perfect peace.

           Some of us wanted to get out, and some of us wanted to and didn't.

           The last I heard, Dickey Beck, a three-time loser at housebreaking, was doing life at the State Pen in Columbus.

           The last I heard, Dale Headley was driving one of those milk trucks where the driver has to stand up all day and rattle his spine over the jagged street-bricks.

           The last I heard from my brother-in-law, Hub Snodgrass was still dragging himself home every evening down by the river to shine, shower, shave, and spend a good hour still trying to scrape the Laughlin steel dust out of his pale skin. He never tanned much, he just burned or stayed out of the river.

           The last I heard, Mike Kottelos was making book in Wheeling.

           I have never gone back there down home to see Ralph Neal. My portrait hangs on one of the walls of the Martins Ferry Public Library. Ralph Neal would think I've become something. And no doubt I have, though I don't know just what. Scribbling my name in books. Christ have mercy on me alive; and after I'm dead, as Pietro Aretino of Florence requested of the priest after he had received extreme unction on his deathbed, "Now that I've been oiled, keep me from the rats."

           When I think of Ralph Neal's name, I feel some kind of ice breaking open in me. I feel a garfish escaping into a hill spring where the crawdads burrow down to the pure bottom in hot weather to get the cool. I feel a rush of long fondness for that good man Ralph Neal, that good man who knew us dreadful and utterly vulnerable little bastards better than we knew ourselves, who took care of us better than we took care of ourselves, and who loved us, I reckon, because he knew damned well what would become of most of us, and it sure did, and he knew it, and he loved us anyway. The very name of America often makes me sick, and yet Ralph Neal was an American. The country is enough to drive you crazy.

#poetry #James Wright #American poetry #boy scouts #boyhood #adolescence #Martins Ferry #Middle America #Ohio #Socrates #Alcibiades #manhood #America #love

[beautyformysoul]

#photography #ruralphotography #travel #snow #snowing #my photography #rural aesthetic #rural scene #rugged #middle of nowhere #middle america #small town america

[neaature]

Thanks for the support. Here is part II of midwest gothic. There will be more as fall moves in.

#dark academia #midwest gothic #prairie gothic #southern gothic #horrorcore #middle america #setting #small towns #americana #novel

[ihavethesky]

#middle America #Kansas City #Missouri #kcmo #wedding travel

[nezreblogz]

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #jerusalem #west bank #rafah #egypt #lebanon #yemen #middle east #human rights #united nations #politics #colonialism #america #israel #us politics